RSSEntries from December 2007
Ron Paul’s Tea Party
Ron Paul is having another big dollar day. Commemorating the Boston Tea Party, Paul supporters are trying to raise mad cash against the cashocracy. Check out Paul’s tea party.
Is Movement Conservatism Coming Together on Romney?
First, it was the legendary Paul Weyrich, Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Research and Educational Foundation.
Second, it was the surprising announcement of American Conservative Union chairman David Keen. Keene, lion like defender of the fusionist conservative position declared, “In recent months, however, Governor Romney has emerged as the single candidate most worthy [...]
The Empire Strikes Back?
Huckabee’s pulpit squad better beware. It seems the IRS is on to them.
What Caesar gives he can take away. Best to mind your p’s and q’s.
Has Scotland Really Been Better Off Without Them?
The pretender does not look so bad a couple hundred years latter…no?
Check out this link to The Order of the Lion Rampant
Huck… Taking America Back for Christ!
The Drudge Report has a provocative headline linking here.
The heart of the article is a quote from Huckabee, “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”
RP’s will rejoice in the sentiment even if they are not sure:
1. the nation ever actually confessed Christ; and
2. that Christ needs [...]
Jeffersonian’s for Transcendent Order
I repent. I was way too hard on Governor Romney’s speech. The more I think about it, the more I agree with Dreher and Buchanan. It was the best that could be done in our context. My Covenanter reflex was showing. Why make the good the enemy of the perfect. [...]
Jeffersonians All
If Thomas Jefferson is turning over in his grave today it is because he is doing cartwheels of delight. Mitt Romney’s speech hit all the right notes to mollify the concerns of believers, especially evangelical Protestants, about his Mormon faith. Non-believers may be less impressed than the so-called values voters. But all of those evaluating [...]
Platitude Without Attitude
What a “nice” speech!
Did you catch it? If you missed it here is the video.
Rod Dreher gives the speech two thumbs up. Rod says that the speech was, “probably the best that can be expected of a presidential candidate seeking to lead a pluralist democracy.” Rod may be right.
Still, I [...]
Huckabear and the power of the Pastors
My people listen to me talk politics and politely ignore me…. quant, charming, and irrelevant. Oh well. Apparently some Pastors still got the mojo… check out this article on the rise of Huckabee from the New York Times.
Augustinian Antithesis
The Eternal City’s Fall
In the year 410 A.D., the city of Rome was sacked and plundered by Alaric the Goth. The fall of Rome, the Eternal City, shocked the world and began the chain of events that culminated in the collapse of classical civilization. Expressing the lamentation of many Christians, Jerome wept and [...]